Ancient Roman "SAK"

[Ace Rimmer]

Just came across this and thought the group might find it interesting. "There's nothing new under the sun."

 

[chutcher]

Cool. Where is that displayed?

 

[willisoften]

Just came across this and thought the group might find it interesting. "There's nothing new under the sun."

Nope, nothing new I've seen the modern recreation, but I can't remember in which museum. Cambridge ? Köln?

The spoon I think extends and the earwax scoop puts the Victorinox toothpick to shame. (Somebody said its for scooping gunk from bottles, BORING).

Roman soldiers often carried folding saws. (I think the second empire ruled from Constantinople).
Theres an account of Persians carrying folding blades with hoofpicks.
Great post, thankyou.

 

[kamakiri.knives]

Funny that we now would group that with hobo knives…

Thanks for posting!

 

[The Zieg]

This has come up a few times (I've posted it once, too) and I enjoy the comments every time. Good to see it again. Someone did produce a repro of it, as W willisoften mentioned. I'll see if I can't find it and post it here, too.

Zieg

 

[Ace Rimmer]

Cool. Where is that displayed?

Thanks for all the comments. Sorry, I don't know where this was taken, wish I did! I took this screenshot of someone else's post, and his was a repost from yet someone else.

 

[willisoften]

My brother in-law says Cambridge. My memory isn’t terrible but I used to travel a bit and just can’t remember.
Edit: There have been a few found apparently, even a replica you can buy for €250.

 

[Storm 8593]

Found this one after a quick search

Google Image Result for https://www.domusartificis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coltellino2.jpg

 

[Ace Rimmer]

Found this one after a quick search

Google Image Result for https://www.domusartificis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coltellino2.jpg

Thanks, very interesting!

 

[jackknife]

It's very interesting that even two thousand years ago, people had thoughts of combining tools into one small package that was easy to carry. In a non mechanized age, with everything done by hand with simple tools, it must have been extremely difficult to make, yet it was worthwhile because somebody wanted the concept taken to reality.